Claire's Brother
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2,353 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Claire's Brother’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have a number of different ethnic groups, dozens of ethnic groups within Myanmar, and we have one ethnic group which has dominated governance and which has dominated the military and which has used the tool of the state to extract resources, labor, human bodies from the other ethnic groups, right?
They've gone from being colonized to effectively being like a contiguous empire, and they've adopted the logic of the colonizer in doing so.
Yeah.
And fortunately, this is a very common phenomenon, you know.
This is why I tend to view nationalism, even so-called third world nationalisms, as dead ends.
as explicitly counter-revolutionary, as against the liberation of all people.
Because that construction of the nation-state, or really of states in general, tends to come with the establishment of certain superiors and inferiors, you know, subordinates and rulers.
And the privileging of certain religions, ethnic groups, skin tones, whatever the case may be,
Even within so-called ethnically homogenous societies.
Yeah.
You can even look at Japan, right?
Which is touted by, you know, supremacists of all flavors as an ethnically homogenous society.
Even within that society, there's, you know, colorism.
Yeah.
And there's also the exploitation and marginalization of certain groups within that territory.
Such as the Ainu.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think a lot about, like, nationalism.
There was a time when there was a movement to try and use nationalism as a positive thing, like the idea of a brotherhood of nations, right?
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